Daily Show features discussion on gays in the military [video]
”I came to this [book] trying to figure out if there were people who had a real concern about unit cohesion, or if it was something that was pretty much made up… and many of them told me, to my surprise, that this was based on nothing but their own prejudices and fears…. This was 15 years later, so, in a sense, these were guys who were ready to do a mea culpa — people who were engaged at intimate levels with creating this policy — senior military officers, and they were ready to tell me. And I appreciated that they were finally being truthful with me.
Nathaniel Frank, senior research fellow at the Palm Center at UC Santa Barbara, discussing his book ”Unfriendly Fire” with Jon Stewart. Frank says that over 12,000 service members have been dismissed under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and that 800 of them were of ”mission critical” status. (The Daily Show)
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